Reply #51: Obama has run a two track campaign from the start

[Tom Rinaldo]

Track One has been to promote himself as a positive new leader for the 21st Century. Track Two has been to destroy both Bill and Hillary Clinton, locking them into the dungeon called "divisive politics of the past".

There was no way Obama could win the nomination without seeking to destroy both Bill and Hillary Clinton, given the advantages she had over him at the start of this campaign. It was clear by mid Summer that a positive campaign would not be enough all by itself.

It is at least equally true to Dowd's assertion that the only way Obama could win was to destroy Clinton(s), if one needs to view this race with that type of perspective. I never get why Obama is viewed as a delicate flower who has to be protected until we send him out onto the Colleseum floor to battle the Republican Lions, but it has been perfectly fine all year to tear into that tough old battle axe broad Hillary Clinton with non stop vile accusations. What could possibly be more personally destructive than embracing and promoting a meme that Hillary Clinton will do or say absolutely anything to get power? Or that she and Bill belittle African Americans? Or that Hillary Clinton wants to throw the election to John McCain, or that she is a "monster" and Bill Clinton is Joe McCarthy ressurected?

What could be a more avert attempt to destroy a Democratic politician than a concerted effort to ressurect, breath new life into, and then aggressively employ every Right Wing anti-Clinton talking point that has ever been used to bring down the elected government of the United States and smear the one Democratic interlude in decades of otherwise uninterupted Republican executive branch rule?